Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.
It occurred to me that grief is like a tunnel. You enter it without a choice because you must get to the other side. The darkness of it plays tricks on you and sometimes you can even forget where you are or what your purpose is. I believe that people...
…it seemed to Kirsch that the most reliable guide to the mental landscape of a patient was the patient himself. He was better placed to explain his behaviour and his experiences than anyone else. Yet wherever Kirsch went, the patient was the very l...
I will remember this, thought Ender, when I am defeated. To keep dignity, and give honor where it's due, so that defeat is not disgrace. And I hope I don't have to do it often.
I know I'm a Third, I know it, if you want I'll go away so you don't have to be embarrassed in front of everybody, I'm sorry I lost the monitor and now you have three kids and no obvious explanation, so inconvenient for you, I'm sorry sorry sorry.
For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.
The duality of positive and negative becomes subsumed in Oneness. There are no opposites in the totality and absolute perfection of the Oneness that we know as Divine.
Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him
Judgment…is one of the ego’s tools to foster separation through comparison.
Forgiveness is…an archaic perception of personal debt and guilt designed by the ego to trap us unendingly within itself.
When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.
Energy is neither good nor bad. It just is.
A schoolmate of Matt Chandler's with the locker next to his: "I need to tell you about Jesus. When do you want to do that?
But if one doesn't really exist, one wonders why..." she hesitated. "Why one makes such a fuss about things," Anthony suggested. "All that howling and hurrahing and gnashing of teeth. About the adventures of a self that isn't really a self—just the...
We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on,
We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.
For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.
Ender didn't like fighting. He didn't like Peter's kind, the strong against the weak, and he didn't like his own kind either, the smart against the stupid.
That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.
[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear...
Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together.
